Tuesday, March 1, 2016

New Cosmic Trigger paperback out

The new paperback edition of Cosmic Trigger published by Hilaritas Press (the publishing imprint of the RAW Trust) has been released. It's list on Amazon for $15.23. Confusingly, as I wrote this post Monday, a more expensive older paperback edition was still being listed for a higher price; to get the new edition with the John Higgs intro, be sure that you order the one with the above cover.

Just got my hard copy, very exciting! When's the reading group starting?

The cover art is amazing. I've got to figure out how to display this on my bookshelf for maximum visibility. Beautiful job.

John Higgs's new intro is fantastic too. Great addition to the volume. He says the book is in part about the Northern CA counterculture of the 70's. I feel like Christina's family mementos are such a nice addition to that theme. I hope she keeps them coming.

On a personal note, I've only read this book once, unlike many of his others. It was the third item I read in the RAW catalog. Illuminatus, Quantum Pysch., then this. I read them all in very quick succession and was still so new to RAW's ideas that I'm sure I absorbed very little of it. So re-reading this many years later is going to be exciting. It'll be like playing a game for which I've only just begun to understand the rules.

I plan on writing a book review at c4ss.org within the next couple of weeks. Since c4ss.org is an anarchist think tank, I'll be approaching it from that lens, but will do my best not to confine the review too narrowly.

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